Tool-assisted coding
Articles from the Zyte blog about Tool-assisted coding.
Stopping a crawl when the data stops looking real with Jev
A Scrapy pipeline that asks a fast, calibrated AI model whether each scraped field still looks real, and stops the crawl when too many don't. What it caught, what it misses, and whether building it was worth it.
uv Python cheatsheet: what changed in 0.12 and what still trips you up
uv 0.12 changed several defaults that Python developers rely on—from how `uv init` structures projects to how hash checking and lockfiles behave. This practical cheatsheet tests the differences across versions and highlights the command-line traps most likely to surprise you.
Web scraping on 22 KB of RAM: Fitting the world on an ESP8266 microcontroller
Data-gathering doesn’t have to be memory-intensive. You can fit the world’s weather on a 9cm-square board, when you move the work to a web scraping API.
I'm not the same developer I was before LLMs
I've been running a series of conversations with developers at Zyte to understand what's actually changed in the way they work since LLMs showed up. Not the headlines. The day-to-day. What they delegate, what they don't, what they notice, what surprises them. This one was different on two counts.
OpenClaw and Claude helped me buy the perfect sneakers using Zyte API
Quickly compare e-commerce products across any site with an agent, a skill and an AI-powered web scraping API.
The future of Scrapy: Smarter, faster and ready for AI-powered scraping
What does the future hold for the tool some describe as “the gift that revolutionised web scraping”?